Henry E. Emerson

Henry Everett "Hank" Emerson (28 May 1925-4 February 2015) was a US Army Lieutenant-General during the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

Biography
Henry Everett Emerson was born in Washington DC in 1925, and he graduated from West Point in 1947 and served in the Korean War. During the Vietnam War, he demonstrated that US soldiers could "out-guerrilla" the Viet Cong, and he was known to carry a cowboy-style revolver and was a staunch supporter of racial equality. He suffered severe burns after his helicopter was shot down in the Mekong Delta, and he was stationed in South Korea and at Fort Bragg after the war. He retired in 1977 and died in 2015 at the age of 89.